Gwynns Falls Watershed

Security Boulevard/Woodlawn Area
Environmental Restoration Initiative

Baltimore County has developed an environmental restoration initiative for the Security Boulevard/Woodlawn area to improve water quality in the Dead Run, create wetland habitat, and aesthetically enhance stream buffer areas. Planned are the following projects:

1. Northeast Corner of Security Boulevard and Woodlawn Drive - Removal of undesirable invasive vines, weeds, and briars, selective tree removal, debris cleanup, and replanting with attractive, native trees and shrubs. This effort will promote water quality through a healthy stream buffer and provide an attractive landscape feature for this highly visible intersection in the business community.
   
   
2. Southwest Corner of Security Boulevard and Woodlawn Drive - Restoration of 1 ,000 feet of the severely degraded Dead Run stream and a landscape enhancement of the stream buffer adjacent to Woodlawn Drive and Fox Chevrolet.
   
   
3. Northside of Whitehead Road from Woodlawn Drive to a Point East of Whitestone Road - Removal of undesirable invasive vines, weeds, and briars, stunted tree removal, debris cleanup, and replanting with attractive, native trees and shrubs. This effort will promote water quality through a healthy stream buffer and provide an attractive streetside landscape feature. Development of a bio-retention filtering area or a storm drain device that improves water quality is also planned.
   
   
4. Dogwood Road from the Church to Englewood Avenue - Removal of undesirable invasive vines and weeds, selective tree removal, debris cleanup, replanting with attractive, native trees and shrubs, and construction of an earthen berm intended to prevent roadside dumping. This effort will promote water quality through a healthy stream buffer and provide attractive boulevard-like landscaping along a major thoroughfare in the community.
   
   
5. Southeast Corner of Security Boulevard and Ingleside Avenue - Removal of undesirable invasive vines and weeds, selective tree removal, debris cleanup and replanting with attractive, native trees and shrubs This effort will promote water quality through a healthy stream buffer, stabilize steep slopes with erodible soils, and provide an attractive landscape feature for the gateway to the Franklintown community and travelers on Security Boulevard.
   
   
6. Woodlawn High School Water Quality Retrofit - Creation of a stormwater management wetland system behind Woodlawn High School including a bio-retention filtering area. This system is designed to treat stormwater runoff and improve water quality. Woodlawn High School students will be provided a rare opportunity to learn about wetland functions in a unique on campus setting.
   
   
7. Dead Run Stream Bank Stabilization in the vicinity of Englewood Avenue - Removal of a collapsed streambank retaining wall, and restoration and revegetation of the streambank to its natural state.
   
   
8. Rutherford Pond Water Quality Retrofit - Conversion of an existing dry stormwater management pond to an extended detention wetland pond facility to improve water quality.
   
   
9. I-70/I-695 Interchange Water Quality Retrofit - Feasibility study to identify opportunities and areas within the highway interchange to improve water quality by providing stormwater treatment of more than 1,000 unmanaged acres of urban development.
   

Project Area Map

Revised March 2, 2011

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